Sharing DVD-ROM with windows computers ?

altought i'm very experienced with linux, i'm rather new to mac os, so if this question sounds dumb, accept my early apologies.
thing is, some time ago, i was trying to copy some printer drivers from a CD to a windows box that didn't have a working cd-rom reader. at first i tried to share my ibook's dvd drive with the windows box, but couldn't find a way to do that from the GUI. since samba is nothing new to me, i edited samba's smb.conf file and added the share manually. after i restarted samba, the windows box could see the share, list the cd's folders but it couldn't open any file nor run executables.
all windows said was that i didn't have permission to do so.
i ended up sharing the C: drive on the windows machine and mounted it on mac os to push the files to a temp folder on the wondows side.
i found and old thread here (from 2000 IIRC) about a shareware that could share folders other than my own home folder, but i don't want to use it, i rather edit smb.conf manually. i'd like to know if there's anything alse besides adding the share in smb.conf that'll allow windows to access the files on my DVD unit.

ok here is the problem the mount points of volumes on Mac OSX differs from linux,
In linux volumes are mounted in /mnt
however on the mac the reside in /dev for example my dvd drive on my imac is
/dev/disk1s1
but the only way to browse the volume is using is pathname /Volumes/dvdname
where dvdname is that actual name of the disk.
So I can easily setup a samba sharepoint on my using the /Volumes path e.g add the following to /etc/smb.conf
[dvd]
comment = dvd drive on macintosh
writable = no
path = /Volumes/dvdname
The problem is that whenever you change your dvd roms you have to change the path to the /Volumes/ each time.
Sharepoints would be quick way of doing this.
I have tried using path = /dev/disk1s1
but I get an error I will keep digging and if you google around as well maybe we can find a good solution.

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